‘This Is Us’ and ‘The Good Doctor’ score big in premiere week broadcast Live +7 ratings

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The series-high ratings for the Season 2 premiere of “This Is Us” the night it aired translated into more highs with a week of delayed viewing.

The NBC series ranks as the top show among adults 18-49 across all of TV for premiere week. It added 2.6 points to its initial 18-49 rating to grow to a 6.5 — surpassing “The Big Bang Theory” and “Sunday Night Football” (each 5.8). To put that in perspective, the show essentially the equivalent of of its entire same-day audience last season following the premiere.

“This Is Us” also added 6.94 million viewers to its total audience in the Live +7 figures — which is huge, but not as huge as the record-setting growth for the premiere of “The Good Doctor.” It added 7.86 million people.

“Designated Survivor” was the percentage-gain leader in both adults 18-49 and viewers, more than doubling its same-day numbers.

Here are the Live +7 rankings for Sept. 25-Oct. 1, 2017. The rankings include first-run series and specials only, not repeats.

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Posted by:Rick Porter

Rick Porter has been covering TV since the days when networks sent screeners on VHS, one of which was a teaser for the first season of "American Idol." He's left-handed, makes a very solid grilled cheese and has been editor of TV by the Numbers since October 2015. He lives in Austin.